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10 Dec, 6 tweets, 2 min read
I wrote about Qanon and The Big Lie and that power point in "Wait, What" in @TheAtlantic

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"If your party has a faction of people who believe Democrats eat children and worship Satan, that makes it a lot easier for people to buy that Democrats stole the election."

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“The political paranoiac can’t stomach society as it is and thus seeks to destroy it under the guise of some looming threat: a deep state, antifa, migrant caravans, transgender bathrooms, an international pedophile ring,” Bennett Parten recently wrote

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QAnon benefited from this same “too stupid to succeed” maxim.Fast-forward to May 2021, when the Public Religion Research Institute found “that 15 percent of Americans say they think that the levers of power are controlled by a cabal of Satan-worshiping...

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Also you can subscribe here and then you can write to me with complaints, questions and comments.

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But please send death threats via LinkedIn.

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7 Dec
I wrote about how the media is failing covering roe in ⁦@TheAtlantic⁩ newsletters.theatlantic.com/wait-what/61af…
"In late August I was talking to a smart liberal lawyer friend on the phone and I said, “I’m really worried about this Texas bill S.B. 8.”

“No way they’ll let it go into effect,” she replied. I was heartened by her words."

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Much of the coverage that’s not outright cynical is also failing to meet the moment. The NY Times published a map that shows a “predicted decline in legal abortions.” Antiseptic language like that does not serve the reader.
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3 Dec
I wrote about Pandemic anxiety in @TheAtlantic

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It’s been 632 days since the World Health Organization officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic. March 11, 2020, was the date, but I knew our lives weren’t going to be normal for a very long time as soon.....

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You can subscribe to “wait, what” here

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1 Dec
Listening to these oral arguments and Oy vey.
You can hear Roberts robertsing
ACB is talking about adoption.
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30 Nov
I wrote "Your body, not your choice" in @TheAtlantic

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“Mississippi’s case is the greatest threat to abortion rights and puts women’s health and lives on the line, with women of color and Latinas suffering the most. The need to protect women’s right to abortion has never been clearer." @RepSylviaGarcia

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Texas law doesn't allow for abortion in the case of rape or incest-leading Dr. Ingrid Skop of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists to defend forcing a (hypothetical) 9-year-old to carry and deliver her rapist’s child.

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16 Nov
I wrote about Republicans canceling culture in @TheAtlantic

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"Now that Republicans are stoking a new moral panic over critical race theory, they’re using more and more books and movies as bait in their ever-evolving culture war."

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"And in a move that may have achieved peak irony, a Kansas school district is removing—they’re careful to not say “banning”—The Handmaid’s Tale, a novel about a dystopia where books are banned."

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12 Nov
I wrote "Why isn't Merrick Garland locking them up?" in @TheAtlantic

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@AdamSchiff told me, "For the rule of law to mean anything, it must apply equally to all Americans. The Department of Justice must be judicious in its actions, but they must also recognize that undue delay will....."

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And @gtconway3d told me, "White-collar criminal cases take time to put together, and prosecutors are being careful. At least that's what I hope is going on."

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